AIRS Global Daily Ammonia Products
Transcript of AIRS Global Daily Ammonia Products
AIRS Global Daily Ammonia Products
J. Warner1, Z. Wei1, L. L. Strow2, S. Hannon2, R. Yang1
J. Walker3 1 Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UMCP 2 Dept. of Physics and JCET, UMBC 3 US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC
*Funded by NASA’s The Science of Terra and Aqua Program (NNX11AG39G) and the Atmospheric Composition Program (NNX07AM45G).
Why Ammonia • Global ammonia (NH3) emissions have been increasing due
to the dramatically increased agricultural livestock numbers together with the increasing use in nitrogen fertilization (Sutton et al., 1993).
• Atmospheric ammonia has impacts to the ecosystems on both local scales, acidification and eutrophication, and global (transboundary) scales through formation of fine ammonium containing aerosols.
• Measurements with daily and large global coverage are challenging and have been lacking partly because the lifetime of NH3 is relatively short and partly because it requires high sensitivity for the retrievals that can be only obtained from areas with high thermal contrasts near the surface (Clarisse et al., 2010).
Methodology • Retrievals using the Optimal Estimation (OE) technique.
• AIRS Cloud Cleared Radiances are used (CCR).
• AIRS L2 products other than NH3 are used in the Forward Model (FM) SARTA.
• Error Covariance matrices and a priori profiles are computed from MOZART climatology.
Contributions of Scott Hannon for AIRS Ammonia Products
• Added NH3 coefficients into AIRS forward model SARTA… • Developed AIRS NH3 sensitivities based on the Brightness Temperatures (BT), which we used in the proposal to NASA.
AIRS Ammonia signals from BT fitting (2004/05/05-20) using pure clear scenes
AIRS NH3 spectral RMS Signals (top) and Errors (bottom)
• MOZART climatology shows know emission sources. • Zonal mean time series indicate in the tropics emission peaks in the winter season and in the mid-latitudes peaks in the summer. • MOZART NH3 fields have not been validated (private communication with L. Emmons).
AIRS NH3 A priori with covariance derived from MOZART climatology
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Determination of a priori Example on 20060304
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AIRS NH3 VMRs (pptv) at 840hPa and DOFS for May 1-31, 2009
AIRS NH3 VMRs AIRS NH3 DOFS
• High NH3 identifies all known sources. • DOFS 0.3 to greater than 1.0.
AIRS NH3 VMR (ppt) at 840hPa for 20090501--20090531
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AIRS NH3 DOFs for 20090501--20090531
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Current Issues CCR with Cloud Frac5on=1.0 CCR with Cloud Frac5on=0.0
• CCR verses L1 clear radiances • Selection of a priori
AIRS NH3 VMR (ppt) at 840hPa for 20090501--20090531
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AIRS NH3 VMR (ppt) at 840hPa for 20090501--20090531
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Comparisons with MOZART NH3 AIRS NH3 VMRs w/ Cloud Frac5on=0
MOZART NH3 at 912hPa MOZART-4 NH3 VMR (pptv) monthly mean at 840hPa for 200905
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AIRS NH3 VMR (ppt) at 840hPa for 20090501--20090531
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Remaining – Validation with In Situ Measurements
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Remaining – Inter-comparison
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Summary • AIRS captures global NH3 emission sources due to natural
and anthropogenic activities with good accuracies. • AIRS DOFS for NH3 ranges from 0.3 to greater than 1.0
over emission regions. • More efforts are needed in the selection of spectral
channels and to reduce noise possibly due to cloud and/or surface effects, as well as the selection of a priori profiles.
• Carry out comparisons to models such as GEOS-Chem, GMI, and CMAQ.
• More Validations with in situ measurements • Inter-comparing with other satellite sensors, i.e., TES
and IASI NH3.